Chapter 035 Western Fantasy Town 26

Early in the morning, Theodore woke up in Xie Yunsui's arms.

I opened my eyes drowsily and saw that the light coming through the gap in the curtains was still dark, and I breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, there was no delay.

Turning his head to see that Charles was still sleeping, he decided to quietly get up and prepare to go to work in the town.

Just when I was about to slowly move out of his arms, I was hugged tightly.

Theodore paused, looked up, and saw the person in front of him still had a sleeping expression.

But the arm around his waist was like steel. Theodore tried twice but failed to pry it free. He said helplessly, "Charles..."

Xie Yunsui kept his eyes closed: "Hold me for a while longer."

Theodore poked his arm and said, "I have to go to town. If I don't hurry, I'll be late."

Xie Yunsui: "I'll take you there later."

"Um?"

Xie Yunsui said sheepishly, "We stayed up too late last night. I wanted you to sleep a little longer."

Theodore: “…”

If you want me to sleep a little longer, you should have restrained yourself last night!

Theodore closed his eyes speechlessly to relieve the soreness in his eyes.

Xie Yunsui didn't hear any response from Theodore for a long time, so he quietly opened his eyes and just happened to see the red marks on Theodore's skin.

Theodore was so white that even the slightest effort would leave marks on his body.

Xie Yunsui felt a little guilty and kissed the red mark, trying to soothe the skin.

Theodore felt itchy from his breath and couldn't help but reach out and scratch it, leaving several scratches that were more obvious than the ones left by Xie Yunsui.

Xie Yunsui: "..."

After lying in bed for about ten minutes, Theodore finally got up. Xie Yunsui busied himself with serving him attentively, then took out the carriage and laid a soft carpet in it so that Theodore could sit more comfortably.

After sending Theodore to the town and leaving the carriage with him, Xie Yunsui ran back to Ika Village, thinking of it as exercise.

There are usually not many people in the morning. Xie Yunsui sat behind the cashier counter and looked through the account book on the table. He found that it had been almost half a year.

Most of the 50,000 transaction volume has been completed, and it will be completed on time in the next six months unless there are any unexpected events.

Xie Yunsui was bored and talking to the little bee: "If I complete the mission goal, will there be a reward?"

A little bee buzzed over: "I don't know."

“How much inventory is in the warehouse now?”

The little bee cast a light screen on the table, which showed the panoramic view of the second warehouse.

The deserted island world is the first warehouse. In order to distinguish, all the items in this world are separated into separate warehouses.

Among them, cabbage is the most abundant, occupying almost a quarter of the huge warehouse. Tomatoes, eggplants, lettuce, carrots, potatoes, beetroots, spinach and other common vegetables together can occupy half of the warehouse.

The herbs that we bought in large quantities before were consumed in large quantities because they were constantly used to make medicines, so there are not many left.

Several large boxes were filled with various types of medicines.

"We've recently purchased eggs and goat's milk, and they're not many, but we need to prepare more containers." Xie Yunsui made a list on the paper next to him and prepared to go to Edmund to order another hundred large wooden barrels.

Even if the items in Xiao Wan's warehouse remain in a constant state after being placed in, it is not appropriate for liquids like goat milk to float directly in the air.

"Well, it gets a bit messy when there are too many things. Let's get some shelves."

Xie Yunsui was bored and wanted to tidy up the warehouse, but he was running a store at the moment, so he just made a temporary plan.

Angelica knocked on the door and came in, a worried look on her face: "Hey, Ciel."

Xie Yunsui raised an eyebrow: "What's wrong?"

Is there something that even Angelica can't handle? He'd like to hear about it.

"The ginseng you gave me...isn't it possible to cultivate it?" Angelica asked with lifeless eyes.

Xie Yunsui poured her a cup of black tea. "Have you been cultivating ginseng all this time? I thought you would help your union members figure out how to increase the yield of the apple trees."

Angelica waved her hand. "It's enough to leave the apple trees to Olivia and the others. I'm just curious, Ciel, where did you get the ginseng and apples? I even sent people to the Aguila Mountains to look for them, but they couldn't find them. There's nothing like them on the entire continent."

Her eyes were full of doubt.

Xie Yunsui shrugged: "Maybe I had a fortuitous encounter."

That meant he didn't want to elaborate, so Angelica didn't ask any more questions.

Everyone has their own secrets, and ginseng and apples are related to Charles's profits. Asking too much about them will inevitably make Charles feel uncomfortable.

Angelica thought for a moment and said, "If I represent the union and buy more ginseng..."

Xie Yunsui shook his head slightly: "I don't have much ginseng left."

"You said last time there were still two hundred."

"Yes, there are only two hundred left. It's not a magic apple, and even I can't get more." Xie Yunsui said.

Angelica felt uncomfortable: "Don't you have any ginseng seeds?"

There weren't many ginseng seeds in Xie Yunsui's hand to begin with, and he had grown them all into ginseng. Now he didn't have a single seed left.

He smiled faintly and shook his head.

Angelica sighed, "Well, no wonder you didn't let me report the existence of ginseng to the union."

It turned out that he didn't have much stock left.

"But I still need a few ginsengs to build a large defensive formation." Angelica looked out the window and said leisurely, "You know, Ika Village is so close to Villanstai. If the monster wave like fifty years ago comes again, Ika Village will no longer exist."

Xie Yunsui pondered for a moment and asked, "How much do you need?"

"That depends on how big the defensive formation is."

Angelica pulled out a hand-drawn map of Ika Village and said, "Ika Village is built along a stream, and the distance between the first and last houses is too great. Building a formation that encompasses the entire village would be incredibly difficult. Even a hundred high-level pharmacists wouldn't be able to do it."

Xie Yunsui understood that carving a formation required infusing magic power and completing it in one go. The larger the formation, the more magic power was consumed. Even if he had the energy given by Xiao Wan, he could not draw a defensive formation that could include the entire Ika Village.

Angelica: "So I decided to carve a formation on all four walls of the new inn."

If a crisis occurs, only the new hotel can accommodate so many villagers.

In this way, given the building size of the new hotel, it would take about ten ginsengs' worth of pure energy to maintain the magic power.

Xie Yunsui thought for a moment and said, "If this is a new hotel, I can try to draw a formation."

"Can you hold on?"

"Try it first. If it doesn't work, I'll have to trouble you."

The two reached a preliminary consensus, and Angelica felt much more relaxed. She asked with interest, "How was your week with the Hitting Tree?"

Xie Yunsui smiled faintly: "We got along very well. I even caught a tree beast."

The one he caught was the one who had hit him the most. Xie Yunsui was quite vindictive and had to squeeze the tree beast hard and make it shed its skin continuously to vent his anger.

Angelica reminded: "Tree beasts like to live in groups. When they find a territory where they are the only one of their kind, they will keep giving birth until the group reaches the number they want."

Xie Yunsui nodded: "I know, I will control it."

If you can't control it, throw it into the warehouse.

"Okay, after you've rested for a few days, prepare to carve the formation. The village is becoming more and more prosperous now, and I'm always a little uneasy."

In the next few days, Xie Yunsui prepared to draw the formation.

He didn't even boil the potion yet. Instead, he accumulated the energy given by Xiao Wan and drew the formation on paper and on the ground over and over again, trying to form muscle memory.

Half a month later, Xie Yunsui spent a whole day drawing the formation on the outer wall of the new hotel, and there were many onlookers.

The villagers looked around and discussed, "Is this kind of advanced formation finally going to be available in our village?"

"I heard that those towns have protective formations, just in case the monster waves invade again."

"With this formation, can our village raise more cattle and sheep?"

…

The adventurers came and went, watching Xie Yunsui's smooth movements.

"Has the shop owner's ability reached the level of a high-level pharmacist?"

"It was actually the owner who drew it. I thought it would be Angelica's."

"Haha, even Ika Village has a defensive formation. I heard that even Laize Town doesn't have one."

"The town of Laize was developed later. The lord had just changed at that time. Didn't you notice it?"

"Then wouldn't Ika Village be more powerful than Laizer Town?"

"Hahaha, if an adventurer company could move into Ika Village, it would be no different from Laize Town."

…

When adventurers go out, the only thing they care about is food, clothing and shelter.

Mrs. Anita’s cooking skills are getting better and better, even better than some of the shops in town that claim to be chefs.

There is already a tailor shop in Ika Village, and people are there to repair damaged clothes.

The rooms in the new hotel are very large, and two teams of adventurers can easily stay in one room. If you want to pursue comfortable living, you can spend a few more copper coins to stay in the villagers' homes.

Ika Village is now able to meet the basic needs of adventurers, not to mention that there are cheap potions and magic apples that can boost adventurers' energy.

Someone made the final statement: "Perhaps soon, the lord will change Ika Village into Ika Town."

With so many people coming and going in Ika Village, the tax revenue must have reached the standard long ago, right?

Theodore passed by the inn and saw someone concentrating on drawing a pattern. His serious look was particularly attractive.

He also didn't expect that Ika Village would develop to this point.

Everything seemed to have started when Charles came to Ika Village, as if this man was destined to save Ika Village.

He took a few steps back, intending to go back to the store, but accidentally bumped into someone. Looking back, he found it was Grandpa Agnes.

"Grandpa?" Theodore noticed that his grandfather's eyes were a little red.

Agnes smiled: "I'm fine..."

He walked back with Theodore, leaning on a wooden stick. He watched the sunset dye the sky red in the distance, and his heart was in turmoil.

The newly built hotel was like a landmark, and the defensive formation was a signal—

Ika Village is no longer the dilapidated village with only dozens of villagers and every family is poor.

I never thought that I would be able to see the prosperity of Ika Village in my lifetime.

Agnes' voice gradually brightened. "Theodore, what do you think about building a square in the open space out front? How can a town, no, a village, not have a square?"

Theodore: “…”

-

The heart of the Willanstead foothills forest.

On a hill covered with dead branches and rotten leaves, suddenly a breath of air came flying with the dead leaves.

This is a giant beast that has been sleeping for a long time, so long that its body is buried under deep soil.

Beneath the thick soil, the giant beast's skin was almost glued to the ground.

Faint, silky fluorescent light penetrated the monsters from all directions: from the sky, the trees, the center of the earth, and the monsters that accidentally stepped into the giant beast's territory...

Not enough, not enough.

Endless desire surged from the giant beast's heart.

It requires more energy.

The death-like breath extended beyond the territory, and the neighbors around the giant beast suddenly became chaotic and rushed out to occupy new territories.